- Drink: Braga on wheat
- How to serve: chilled
- Main ingredients: wheat, sugar, water
- Preparation time: up to 14 days
- Strength: up to 45°
There is no perfect wort recipe. I like my time-tested recipe more (calculation for an aluminum flask with a volume of 40 liters, later I began to do it in beer bottles):
- water is only spring or well, it contains the least impurities and no chlorine – 35 liters;
- sprouted wheat – 1 kg, the sprouts give a piquant wheat flavor, there is no bitterness and there is practically no fusel smell;
- pressed yeast – 1 pack of 500 grams, I don’t recognize dry ones in principle, they are too fast-acting, they ferment well, but then the must smells of chemistry;
- the most important ingredient is sugar, without which there will be no normal fermentation, it will take 1 kilogram per 4 liters of water, then the final product will be less tart and more pleasant.
Important! Very often I meet sugar from the “unsweetened” series, as well as salt from the “unsalted” series. That is, you do everything according to the recipe, but in the end everything turns out wrong. I take sugar from the manufacturer, not the distributor. In Bashkiria, these are Raevsky and Chishminsky sugar factories with their own raw materials.
The cooking process
It is better to germinate wheat in advance, it will take an extra 2 days, but it’s worth it. Everything is thoroughly mixed to be saturated with oxygen, then poured into a container. It remains to wait for fermentation.
I do not put on a glove, because cats love to play with it with their claws and pierce it. I have an ordinary water seal made from a dropper.
The tube is displayed in a container with water. When the bubbles stop coming out – the mash is ready, you can distill it.
Watch the video of wheat mash and you will see how to properly prepare high-quality wort for moonshine.